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Origins
The M6, arriving in 2026, extended AITO's range toward the market's volume heart: a mid-size family SUV bringing the Huawei cockpit-and-assistance formula to a price band below the M7 and M8, where China's fiercest sales battles concentrate. The strategic logic followed the brand's established descent — each success funding a step down-market with the technology stack intact, Huawei's retail gravity carrying products that would struggle anonymously through conventional dealers. Competition at this altitude was thickest, from BYD's empire to every surviving startup. The M6 thus tests the partnership's deepest question: whether software-led differentiation survives at mainstream margins — whether the counter still beats the dealership when the price gap narrows to nothing.
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